Efficient approach for the detection of diffuse edges

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 3522-3530

  Yu, Tian Hu ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Diffuse edge; Edge detection; Noise reduction; Scale space representation; Second order gradient generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001474473     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601088     Document Type: Article

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